The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.